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Dedication Prelude in the Theater Prologue in Heaven Part 1: Night (Faust's Study 1) Part 1: Outside the City Gate Part 1: Faust's Study 2 Part 1: Faust's Study 3 Part 1: Auerbach's Wine-Cellar in Leipzig Part 1: Witch's Kitchen Part 1: Street Part 1: Evening Part 1: Promenade Part 1: The Neighbor's House Part 1: A Street Part 1: A Garden Part 1: A Summerhouse Part 1: Forest and Cave Part 1: Gretchen's Room Part 1: Martha's Garden Part 1: At the Well Part 1: By the Ramparts Part 1: Night Part 1: Cathedral Part 1: Walpurgis Night Part 1: Walpurgis Night's Dream Part 1: An Expanse of Open Country Part 1: Night: Open Fields Part 1: Prison Part 2: Act 1: A Pleasant Landscape Part 2: Act 1: The Throne Room Part 2: Act 1: The Great Hall Part 2: Act 1: A Garden Part 2: Act 1: A Dark Gallery Part 2: Act 1: Brightly Lit Rooms Part 2: Act 1: Knight's Hall Part 2: Act 2: A High-Vaulted, Narrow Gothic Room (Faust's Study 4) Part 2: Act 2: Laboratory Part 2: Act 2: The Pharsalian Fields Part 2: Act 2: Rocky Inlets of the Aegean Sea Part 2: Act 3: Before Menelaus' Palace at Sparta Part 2: Act 3: Inner Courtyard of a Castle Part 2: Act 3: A Shaded Grove Part 2: Act 4: High Mountains Part 2: Act 4: On a Foothill Part 2: Act 4: The Anti-Emperor's Tent Part 2: Act 5: A Broad Landscape Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (Before the Palace) Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (Faust on the Balcony) Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (Within the Palace) Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (The Large Outer Courtyard) Part 2: Act 5: Mountain Gorges
All Themes Reason and Passion The Human Desire for Meaning and Transcendence Pleasure and Love Parts, Wholes, and Limits Intellectualism and the Value of Words Politics
All Characters Heinrich Faust Mephistopheles Margarete/A Penitent Wagner Homunculus Helen of Troy Euphorion The Emperor The Manager The Dramatic Poet The Player of Comic Roles The Earth Spirit The student/the baccalaureate Valentine The Chancellor-Archbishop The Astrologer Paris Erictho Chiron Manto Anaxagoras Thales Proteus Menelaus The Three Mighty Men Baucis and Philemon Want, Debt, Distress, Care, and Death Pater Ecstaticus, Pater Profundus, and Pater Seraphicus The Blessed Virgin Mary
All Symbols Faust's Study and Wagner's Laboratory Nature and the Earth Spirit Prisons and Keys
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Prelude in the Theater
Prologue in Heaven
Part 1: Night (Faust's Study 1)
Part 1: Outside the City Gate
Part 1: Faust's Study 2
Part 1: Auerbach's Wine-Cellar in Leipzig
Part 1: Witch's Kitchen
Part 1: Street
Part 1: Evening
Part 1: Promenade
Part 1: The Neighbor's House
Part 1: A Street
Part 1: A Garden
Part 1: A Summerhouse
Part 1: Forest and Cave
Part 1: Gretchen's Room
Part 1: Martha's Garden
Part 1: At the Well
Part 1: By the Ramparts
Part 1: Night
Part 1: Cathedral
Part 1: Walpurgis Night
Part 1: Walpurgis Night's Dream
Part 1: An Expanse of Open Country
Part 1: Night: Open Fields
Part 1: Prison
Part 2: Act 1: A Pleasant Landscape
Part 2: Act 1: The Throne Room
Part 2: Act 1: The Great Hall
Part 2: Act 1: A Garden
Part 2: Act 1: A Dark Gallery
Part 2: Act 1: Brightly Lit Rooms
Part 2: Act 1: Knight's Hall
Part 2: Act 2: A High-Vaulted, Narrow Gothic Room (Faust's Study 4)
Part 2: Act 2: Laboratory
Part 2: Act 2: The Pharsalian Fields
Part 2: Act 2: Rocky Inlets of the Aegean Sea
Part 2: Act 3: Before Menelaus' Palace at Sparta
Part 2: Act 3: Inner Courtyard of a Castle
Part 2: Act 3: A Shaded Grove
Part 2: Act 4: High Mountains
Part 2: Act 4: On a Foothill
Part 2: Act 4: The Anti-Emperor's Tent
Part 2: Act 5: A Broad Landscape
Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (Before the Palace)
Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (Faust on the Balcony)
Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (Within the Palace)
Part 2: Act 5: Faust's Palace (The Large Outer Courtyard)
Part 2: Act 5: Mountain Gorges
Reason and Passion
The Human Desire for Meaning and Transcendence
Pleasure and Love
Parts, Wholes, and Limits
Intellectualism and the Value of Words
Heinrich Faust
Margarete/A Penitent
Euphorion
The Dramatic Poet
The Player of Comic Roles
The Earth Spirit
The student/the baccalaureate
The Chancellor-Archbishop
The Astrologer
Erictho
The Three Mighty Men
Baucis and Philemon
Want, Debt, Distress, Care, and Death
Pater Ecstaticus, Pater Profundus, and Pater Seraphicus
Faust's Study and Wagner's Laboratory
Nature and the Earth Spirit
Prisons and Keys
Margarete/A Penitent Character Analysis
Also known as Gretchen, a shortening of her given name, Margarete is a beautiful, innocent, poor young woman with whom Faust falls madly in love and who in turn falls in love with him. The two become involved in a torrid love affair, and one night Faust tells Margarete to administer a sleeping potion to her controlling mother so that the two lovers can consummate their relationship. This act, however, is the beginning of Gretchen's end: the potion kills her mother, Gretchen becomes impregnated by Faust, and the community shuns her for her having sex outside of marriage. After Faust murders her brother Valentine, Gretchen becomes further haunted by her guilt and her yearning for innocence. She murders her newborn infant to free it from this world, and is consequently imprisoned and sentenced to death by beheading. Though Faust attempts to liberate her, Gretchen at last refuses to leave her prison with him. As Faust and Mephistopheles fly from her cell, however, a voice from the heavens announces that Gretchen is saved, to spend eternity in heaven despite her sins. At the end of the play, Gretchen's soul, referred to as a penitent, successfully appeals to the Blessed Virgin Mary on behalf of Faust's soul. Mary then instructs her to rise, so that Faust can follow her into eternity.
Margarete/A Penitent Quotes in Faust
The Faust quotes below are all either spoken by Margarete/A Penitent or refer to Margarete/A Penitent. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Princeton University Press edition of Faust published in 2014.
Part 1: A Garden Quotes
Don't be afraid! Look in my eyes,
let them and let these hands that now clasp yours
express what tongue can never say:
complete devotion and a sense of bliss
that must endure eternally!
Eternally!—Its end would be despair.
There must not be an end! Not ever!
Related Characters: Heinrich Faust (speaker), Margarete/A Penitent
Page Number and Citation: 3188-3194
Part 1: Gretchen's Room Quotes
My heart is heavy,
all peace is gone,
I'll never find it,
never, again.
My breast is yearning
to be with him;
could I but clasp
and hold him tight,
and kiss him
as my heart desires,
under his kisses
I'd swoon and die!
Related Characters: Margarete/A Penitent (speaker), Heinrich Faust
Part 1: At the Well Quotes
How readily I once declaimed
when some poor girl did the wrong thing!
I'd cross myself, act high and mighty—
and now I'm prey to sin myself!
And yet, o God, what brought me to it,
was all so good, and oh so sweet!
Related Characters: Margarete/A Penitent (speaker)
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Margarete/A Penitent Character Timeline in Faust
The timeline below shows where the character Margarete/A Penitent appears in Faust. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Later, in a street, Faust walks past a lovely young woman, Margarete. He takes her by the arm and offers to escort her home, but she frees... (full context)
In her small, neatly kept room, Margarete is braiding and tying up her hair. She wishes to know the identity of the... (full context)
Mephistopheles warns that Margarete is returning, so he and Faust must leave. He presents his love-struck master with a... (full context)
Margarete enters, carrying a lamp. She is warm, so she opens a window and finds it... (full context)
Margarete then opens her chest to put away her clothes, and at once she sees the... (full context)
...forth, preoccupied, while Mephistopheles swears vehemently. Faust asks what's ailing the devil, who explains that Margarete's pious mother gave the girl's new jewels to a local priest as a donation to... (full context)
Faust inquires about Margarete, here referred to as Gretchen. Mephistopheles says she is grieving about the loss of her... (full context)
Margarete's neighbor, Dame Martha Schwerdtlein, is alone in her house, thinking about her husband. He has... (full context)
Margarete enters and tells Martha that she has found yet another casket of treasures more splendid... (full context)
...to have a message for Dame Martha Schwerdtlein. He excuses himself for interrupting, and addresses Margarete as though she were a lady of high social standing (even though she is just... (full context)
...is troubled: her husband left her no money? No jewelry? Mephistopheles offers his sympathies, and Margarete promises to pray requiems (masses sung for the dead) for the departed. The devil turns... (full context)
...as a second witness to establish the truth of what he's said. He then asks Margarete if she'll be here too, and praises his friend (the one coming to verify the... (full context)
Faust wants to know how things stand with Margarete. Mephistopheles applauds his passion and tells him that he will see his beloved tonight at... (full context)
...evening, and Faust and Mephistopheles are in Martha's garden. Martha and Mephistopheles walk together, and Margarete is on Faust's arm. She is self-deprecating in conversation with him, but Faust praises her... (full context)
As they enjoy one another's company, Margarete tells Faust about her and her fussy mother's modest household. Because they don't have a... (full context)
Faust and Margarete are deep in conversation. Faust asks if she really recognized him when he entered the... (full context)
Faust and Margarete run from Martha's garden to a summerhouse. Here, the girl warns her lover that Mephistopheles... (full context)
...recognizes that human beings can never posses what is perfect, he also feels that in Margarete he at last has found a companion he cannot live without, who makes him swing... (full context)
...Faust as a hypocrite for being so modest. He goes on to tell Faust that Margarete is in town, sitting in gloom with her overpowering love for him, and he advises... (full context)
Mephistopheles warns Faust that Margarete thinks he has run away, and adds that for all intents and purposes this is... (full context)
Gretchen, a.k.a. Margarete, is alone in her room, sitting at her spinning-wheel. She sings about her... (full context)
Margarete and Faust enter Martha's garden together. Margarete wants to know her lover's religion, but he... (full context)
There's a hitch, however, for Margarete. Faust doesn't hold to Christianity, and she's distressed by the company he keeps. She finds... (full context)
Margarete announces that she must go. Faust asks when he will be able to stay and... (full context)
...calls the devil a monster, incapable of understanding how such a loyal loving soul as Margarete suffers in regarding her lover (Faust) as a lost soul. Mephistopheles calls Faust a sensualist,... (full context)
Gretchen and a girl named Lieschen are at the well with their pitchers. Lieschen gossips about... (full context)
After Lieschen exits, Gretchen walks home. She says that once she would have criticized a girl for doing wrong... (full context)
...the Mater Dolorosa, the Blessed Virgin Mary in her sorrows, surrounded by jars of flowers. Gretchen enters and places fresh flowers in the jars, then prays to Mary to have mercy... (full context)
This scene is set in the street outside Gretchen's house. Her brother Valentine, a soldier, enters. He recalls how his comrades used to get... (full context)
Martha, Gretchen, and some townspeople pour into the street, bringing light, and they discover that a brawl... (full context)
...and kill her, he'd hope to get abundant pardon for his sins. He demands that Gretchen not shed tears. He tells her that she gave his heart the fatal blow. Valentine... (full context)
...in progress. Surrounded by people, and with her Evil Spirit behind her, stands the fallen Gretchen. Her Evil Spirit torments her with memories of innocence. It reminds her of Valentine's death,... (full context)
Gretchen wants to escape the thoughts the Evil Spirit inspires in her. The choir sings the... (full context)
...in Mephistopheles that he saw a deathly-pale lovely girl who looks like his own dear Gretchen (whose fate he has no knowledge of at this point). Leave that alone, the devil... (full context)
...Mephistopheles enter an expanse of open country under an overcast sky. Faust has learned that Gretchen is miserable and despairing in prison—for killing her newborn child, Faust's own. Speaking in prose... (full context)
...keys. A long-forgotten sense of horror makes him tremble, for behind the iron door is Margarete. Inside she sings in the persona of her dead child, singing about the whorish mother... (full context)
Faust enters the cell and Margarete cowers, afraid that her execution is about to take place, even though it is scheduled... (full context)
When Faust calls her name, Margarete recognizes his voice. She feels free and embraces the man she loves. Happy memories of... (full context)
Margarete tells Faust to leave without her, to save his poor child, and she imagines her... (full context)
Mephistopheles enters and tells Faust and Margarete to come away, or else both of them will be lost. Margarete begs Faust to... (full context)
...heaven's High Queen, the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is surrounded by other women ascending upward, penitents anxious for mercy. Three sinful women who have achieved redemption—Magna Peccatrix (the Biblical Mary Magdalene),... (full context)
The penitent (Gretchen) clings to the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking her to look down on Faust, the... (full context)


This summer, the Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival will host a pop-up DJ booth promising a mix of blues-tinged music, hosted by some of the UK's best-loved blues presenters and DJs.
Find the DJ booth/gazebo outside town hall on the main street of Colne, next to the town hall festival bar.
Multi-talented, award winning DJ, MC and talented acoustic musician Gary Grainger hosts the blues show on Bishop FM and another show on KCOR Digital Radio Network.
Juking Jenn is a Chicago born DJ involved with the Chicago Blues Society any many other music societies both in the UK and the US.
Jenn promises a bucket load of the blues.
London-based radio presenter and blues club promoter, the tickets for Richard's weekly blues club sell out on a weekly basis.
A consummate and skilled 'blues man', Dave's radio shows are heard by many thousands of blues music lovers across the globe each week. With 16,000 weekly subscribers his online and FM shows are some of the highest profile blues shows around.


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Virginia Watson, Leaf Group Updated March 15, 2018
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How to Travel From El Paso, Texas, to Mexico City
Nuevo Laredo as a Tourist Town
Nuevo Laredo in Mexico lies directly across the U.S. border from Laredo, Texas. The border is demarcated by the Rio Grande, and four bridges for both car and rail traffic span the river. The inland port is the biggest in the United States and, combined with Mexico's, one of the busiest and largest in the world. Travel to Nuevo Laredo is relatively easy, as a major interstate highway in the U.S. and two international airports serve the area.
Travel by Car from the U.S.
Interstate 35 runs through Dallas, Austin and San Antonio before terminating in Laredo. The trip from San Antonio to Laredo is just over 150 miles. Smaller state routes also serve the area; Route 83 comes from the northwest and runs along the Rio Grande to the tip of Texas, and Route 59 connects with Laredo from the northeast. After entering Laredo, you will need to cross over the Mexican border into Nuevo Laredo at one of the three international bridges open to vehicular traffic.
Travel by Car from Mexico
The nearest large city to Nuevo Laredo in Mexico is Monterrey, which is about 130 miles away on the major highway Mexico 85 and 85D. Mexico 85D is a toll road; highway 85 runs parallel to it, but it is much slower driving. The smaller highway Nuevo Leon 1 also runs between Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo, but in a more indirect route. Additionally, the highway Carr Federal 2 (or Mexico 2) runs along the Texas/Mexico border and skirts around the edges of Nuevo Laredo.
Travel by Air
Both Nuevo Laredo and Laredo have international airports; however, a majority of the commercial passenger flights (as opposed to cargo flights) that operate in both cities are regional. Nuevo Laredo has regular flights to and from Mexico City. Laredo has regular flights to Houston and Dallas. If you're flying into either city from any other cities, you'll likely need a connecting flight. Taxis are available between the Laredo airport and Nuevo Laredo if you do not have any other means of transportation across the border.
Greyhound offers bus travel into some Mexican border cities from the U.S., including Nuevo Laredo. Most Greyhound buses to Nuevo Laredo from the U.S. will stop in San Antonio, and you may have to transfer before continuing to your destination. A wide range of Mexican bus companies offer service into Nuevo Laredo. Check with the bus terminals in your origin city for the most accurate schedule and pricing information.
Crossing the Border
Getting between Texas and Mexico at the Laredo/Nuevo Laredo border is relatively easy; after all, thousands of Mexicans and Americans cross in either direction to go to work each morning. U.S. citizens will need a passport to cross the border. You can cross the border into Nuevo Laredo on foot, as many people do, or you can take a car, bus or taxi.
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The process of restating foreign currency accounts of subsidiaries into the reporting currency of the parent company in order to prepare consolidated financial statements.
When a parent-subsidiary relationship exists between two companies in different countries using different currencies, the act or practice of changing the financial statements of the subsidiary to conform to the accounting standards of the parent's country, as well as re-denominating the subsidiary's currency into the parent's currency. According to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States, the translation of a foreign currency to U.S. dollars must be accurate as of the date on the financial statement. If there have been substantial changes to the exchange rate since that date, the consolidated financial statement must note this.
the process of denoting the assets and liabilities of a MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE'S foreign subsidiary's BALANCE SHEET and the revenues and expenses of the subsidiary's PROFIT-AND-LOSS ACCOUNT, which are expressed in terms of the subsidiary's local currency by translating them into the parent company's domestic currency. This is done in order to prepare CONSOLIDATED ACCOUNTS for the group.
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temporal method or current/non-current method, in which fixed assets and long-term liabilities are translated at the exchange rate ruling at the date of their acquisition, and revenues and expenses at an average exchange rate for the year. With the temporal method any differences arising on translation are taken to the profit-and-loss account where they serve to affect recorded profit.
The company provided the following key planning assumptions for continuing operations: Medical Device sales are expected to increase 4%-6%, on a constant currency basis; expects the foreign currency translation impact to be even compared to the prior year; the adjusted effective tax rate is anticipated to be between 25%-27%, as the company anticipates the new U.
Foreign currency translation had a favorable impact of $4.
The company said the 2% decrease over the prior year quarter was largely the result of a 3% decrease due to foreign currency translation impact and a 1% decrease in organic volume, partially offset by a 1% increase each from pricing and acquisitions.
Foreign currency translation had a significant impact on the fourth quarter results, reducing reported revenue by 6.
It slipped into a loss during the third quarter, of 88,369 dinars set off by foreign currency translation adjustments.
The year-over-year increase of five percent (seven percent on a constant-currency basis) was driven primarily by growth in property, insurance, international and underwriting solutions which was partially offset by adverse foreign currency translation impacts and lower project-related volumes.
2 million of unfavorable foreign currency translation and a 4.
As previously disclosed, RBC will record a further loss on sale of its operations of approximately C$37 million before and after tax, which includes an unrealized loss on foreign currency translation (C$45 million as at April 30, 2014).
Foreign currency translation, and hedges at Pratt & Whitney Canada, had an adverse impact of $0.
Unfavorable unit volume and foreign currency translation reduced sales by $174 million and $49 million, respectively.
Sales also benefited from strong price/mix improvements, which drove revenue per tire up 15 percent over the 2010 quarter, excluding the impact of foreign currency translation.
Foreign currency translation did not impact EPS in the quarter.
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Does this look like anything Athens related?
Live music, local theater, thought-provoking art: there are plenty of things to keep you occupied this weekend while the Dawgs are away.
Looking around UGA's website today I came across their master calendar. Even though I am a UGA student there is so much that goes on daily on campus I am rarely aware of all the different activities.


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The Magic of Radio
When I was a kid I always loved radio. As a teenager, a friend of mine and I hosted a show for KSVA a closed circuit broadcast to the beds at Sawtelle Veterans Hospital. As an avid collector of vintage records, CBS Radio host Jim Hawthorne paired me with the founder of CBS radio Andrew White to talk about the old days of radio. The CRN show I host now originated on a small station KZBN owned by Bob Newhart in Santa Barbara.
After Bob sold the station to the Santa Barbara News Press its format changed to all-news. I moved to KKZZ in Ventura and then Mike Horn offered me the chance to join the family at CRN Digital Talk Radio.
Radio is catnip to me. I have been a successful comedy writer, songwriter and TV and stage producer. I am probably best known as the founder of the now world famous Magic Castle, the magician's club in Hollywood. The Castle just celebrated its 50th Anniversary of the opening in 1963.
If you think about it, radio is magic! Radio excites the mind with images in the brain. Who needed television when Orson Welles panicked the nation with his broadcast of the Martian's invading the earth? We "watched" Fibber McGee open that closet door and drew our own pictures of a soundman creating the myriad of effects. On my Hear Them Again show I bring back to life the comics and vaudeville singers and dancers of the past. It's all just a magic illusion. Through the magic of radio our young listeners and try to understand the world their parents and grandparents lived in when cell phones were something they let prisoners use in prisons. Refrigerators were "Ice Boxes" and you could buy a soda at the local drug store. On my shows Professor Harry Hockmann, the world's oldest vaudevillian, brings up one recording from the vault that was made in the days of acoustical records pre-1925. Amazing machines – wireless music players. All you had to do was wind up that old gramophone. To listeners of the time it was all magic!!
A couple of weeks ago I played an old 78 of the great comedian W.C. Fields talking about the day he drank a glass of water. His line says it all: "Ahh, those were the days —- I hope they never come again!
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Increased incidence of cancer in infants in the U.S. 1980-1990
Lisa B. Kenney, Barry A. Miller, Lynn A. Gloeckler Ries, H. Stacy Nicholson, Julianne Byrne, Gregory H. Reaman
BACKGROUND. During the decade between 1980-1990, the rate of cancer in children in the U.S. increased. It is unknown whether cancer in infancy, which is biologically and clinically different from cancer in older children, also increased. METHODS. To evaluate changes in cancer incidence in infants in the U.S. age < 1 year, data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program and the U.S. Bureau of the Census were used to construct age specific, population-based cancer incidence rates. RESULTS. Overall, the annual cancer rate in infants increased from 189 cases per million infants between 1979-1981 to 220 between 1989-1991. At both timepoints, female infants had higher cancer rates than male infants. Although the rates for female infants remained stable at 223 between 1979- 1981 versus 236 between 1989-1991, rates for male infants increased from 158 to 205 during the same timepoints. Male infants had increased rates of central nervous system (CNS) tumors (P < 0.05), neuroblastoma, and retinoblastoma; female infants had increased rates of teratomas (P < 0.01) and hepatoblastomas. Between 1979-1981, the three most common types of cancer in infants were neuroblastoma, leukemia, and renal tumors (27%, 15%, and 14%, respectively), and were neuroblastoma, CNS tumors, and leukemia between 1989- 1991 (27%, 15%, and 13%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS. This study shows that the rate of certain types of cancer in infants in the U.S. is increasing. Studies of both genetic and environmental factors are needed to explain these increased rates and the changing distribution of cancer in the first year of life.
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Central nervous system tumors
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Kenney, L. B., Miller, B. A., Gloeckler Ries, L. A., Nicholson, H. S., Byrne, J., & Reaman, G. H. (1998). Increased incidence of cancer in infants in the U.S. 1980-1990. Cancer, 82(7), 1396-1400. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980401)82:7<1396::AID-CNCR25>3.0.CO;2-0
Increased incidence of cancer in infants in the U.S. 1980-1990. / Kenney, Lisa B.; Miller, Barry A.; Gloeckler Ries, Lynn A.; Nicholson, H. Stacy; Byrne, Julianne; Reaman, Gregory H.
In: Cancer, Vol. 82, No. 7, 01.04.1998, p. 1396-1400.
Kenney, LB, Miller, BA, Gloeckler Ries, LA, Nicholson, HS, Byrne, J & Reaman, GH 1998, 'Increased incidence of cancer in infants in the U.S. 1980-1990', Cancer, vol. 82, no. 7, pp. 1396-1400. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980401)82:7<1396::AID-CNCR25>3.0.CO;2-0
Kenney LB, Miller BA, Gloeckler Ries LA, Nicholson HS, Byrne J, Reaman GH. Increased incidence of cancer in infants in the U.S. 1980-1990. Cancer. 1998 Apr 1;82(7):1396-1400. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980401)82:7<1396::AID-CNCR25>3.0.CO;2-0
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Almost Hostages. It sure felt like it.
First of all a little description on the Colombian guerrilla. FARC. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army. Source from Wikipedia.
The FARC is considered a terrorist organization by the Government of Colombia. The FARC–EP claim to be a peasant army with a political platform of agrarianism and anti imperialist inspired by Bolivianism.
the economic depredations of the ruling bourgeoisie.
the repressive violence from Colombian state and paramilitary forces against the civilian population.
The operations of the FARC–EP are funded by kidnap to ransom, gold mining, and the production and distribution of illegal drugs.
The strength of the FARC–EP forces is indeterminate; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18,000 men and women; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18,000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that FARC–EP forces comprised fewer than 8,000 members. According to an inform from Human Rights Watch, approximately 20-30% of the recruits are minors, most of them are forced to join the FARC. From 1999 to 2008 the guerrilla armies of the FARC and of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army of Colombia) controlled approximately 30–35 per cent of the national territory of Colombia. The greatest concentrations of FARC guerrilla forces are in the south-eastern regions of Colombia's 500,000 square kilometers (190,000 sq mi) of jungle, and in the plains at the base of the Andean mountain chain.
In 1964, the FARC–EP were established as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC), after the Colombian military attacked rural Communist enclaves in the aftermath of The Violence(La Violencia, ca. 1948–58). The FARC are a violent non-state actor (VNSA) whose formal recognition as legitimate belligerent forces is disputed. As such, the FARC has been classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of Colombia, the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the European Union; whereas the governments of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Nicaragua do not classify the FARC as a terrorist organization. In 2008,Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez recognized the FARC-EP as a proper army. President Chávez also asked the Colombian government and their allies to recognize the FARC as a belligerent force, arguing that such political recognition would oblige the FARC to forgo kidnapping and terrorism as methods of civil war and to abide by the Geneva Convention. Juan Manuel Santos, the current President of Colombia, has followed a middle path by recognizing in 2011 that there is an "armed conflict" in Colombia although his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, strongly disagreed. In 2012 FARC announced they would no longer participate in kidnappings for ransom and released the last 10 soldiers and police officers they kept as prisoners but it has kept silent about the status of hundreds of civilians still reported as hostages.
Peasant guerrillas at Marquetelia. FARC founder and leader Manuel Marulanda Vélez is second from left.
After our long day riding of yesterday, where Matteo puncture his rear tire on a remote gravel road, we leave toward the city of Pasto early in the morning. Pasto to the Ecuadorian border is about 200 KM so we are not in a rush. Our plan is to enter Ecuador in the evening and stay for the night at the first little Ecuadorian town. We couldn't be more wrong about our plans.
When we reach Pasto we are blocked and surrounded by at least 200 "Campesinos" that are protesting against the national Colombian government. They are among thousands in all colombia that are part of the "National Paro". The Paro is known as the total blockage of all main roads through Colombia. They do this to bring the government to a negotiation table and to defend what they think are their rights. In this PARO the campesinos (farmers), are asking the government to decrease substantially the price of gasoline and defend the products they are producing by stopping importation from different countries such as Ecuador where everything is drastically cheaper.Of douse we did not know about this national scale PARO. We later find out that most of the time they can be extremely dangerous as the days go by and no negotiation is found between the "Campesinos" leaders and the national government.
This first blockage is easily passed after a charming negotiation done by both of us with a local "leader". We only had to stay with them for about half an hour and listen to their arguments. This was their request and we sure did it. After that we were allowed to pass and move forward.
As we were not informed about this national protest, we thought that our road was free until the border with Ecuador. On the other hand we encounter at least four more blocks which we easily pass without any particular problems. All is fine until the blockage of Tangua. Tangua is a small village 60 KM from the border. This blockage from the start seems to be harder than any other one we passed before. I harm myself with courage and decide to go talk to a leader and explain our situation. No chance. he actually advise me to go back a kilometer or so because staying there could turn out very dangerous for us. We totally got that when Matteo took a photo of me talking to the leader when all of a sudden, about 50 persons started yelling at me and raise their wooden pole to me menacing to bit me up. One particular protester even took out a machete and pointed it at me. I will never forget his face. I was terrified.
In a calm rush way, we backtrack about 3 kilometers and start knocking on houses to see if they would kindly help us to stay for the night. We were blocked. Could not go back nor forward. We find a beautiful family that agrees to allow us to stay in their garage. This garage will be home for us for the following 3 days. The garage was very cold at night and it stunk of cheap gasoline. We were constantly hearing the radio to see when we would have been able to continue our journey. The news was not very positive and we felt hostages of a situation that we could not control. We decided to call The Italian Embassy and let them know our location. We were stuck in what we now know to be a strong FARC region. Even the family that hosted us was a supporter of the guerrilla. According to them the guerrilla does more for them that the Colombian government.
During the third day, we received the information from a moto-taxi that there was a break of half an hour from the blockage. In a hurry we packed our belongings and started to travel toward Tunga where three days earlier we were stopped. We travel at a slow speed because the street were full of stones, broken glass, and debris. We still were very afraid about the situation we were in.
Just before reaching San Juan, a small group of people, advise us not to proceed further because the street were closed again and according to him there was another blockage ahead with many angry people. For sure they would have not let us pass. On top of it they would have burned our motorcycles he says. What to do next is "simple". As many times before one of us goes to the people and try to plead our case, while the other watches our belongings. Being Matteo's turn he starts walking in search of the local leader. He tell me that his main worry is that the campesinos will cut his beard off. He arrives on a bridge, where about 500 people were listening to a speech given by a delegate from the government. He patiently waits when all of a sudden the leader of the local campesinos starts explaining to the people our situation of being semi-hostages of the PARO. To Matteo's disbelief the crowd starts yelling to the leader that they approve our passage to the border. Wow incredible. A woman on a little smokey bike escorted us safely to the border with Ecuador where even the border patrol are surprised to see us arrive. They state that no one has passed the border to Ecuador in the last three days. It really felt like in the movie "Midnight Express". A unique experience, like unique was the ending of our Colombian adventure.
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Soon after Hurricane Floyd's floodwaters receded in the historic town of Princeville, former Mayor Glennie Matthewson started raising questions about the long-term health effects that may have also inundated the region.
Ten months after the worst natural disaster in the state's history, Matthewson, 56, is still raising environmental safety issues to anyone within earshot.
"We're taking a big enough risk by moving back into an area that might flood again," Matthewson said. "But with the environment, we might be sitting on a ticking time bomb. And it isn't just Princeville. This issue applies across the board."
Such environmental concerns prompted two charitable organizations to fund a one-year project that will study the long-term health effects of the 1999 floods. Two grants totalling $511,267, announced this week, will enable the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the prevalence of potentially harmful bacteria in counties flooded by Floyd. The grants - $411,267 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and $100,000 from the Burroughs-Wellcome fund - will attempt to assess the long-term health effects of the floods.
On Sept. 16, Floyd dumped more than 20 inches of rain on Eastern North Carolina. Just days before, Hurricane Dennis had finished pummeling the region with 10 inches of rain. The flooding from the storms' drenching rains swelled the region's waterways and caused the widespread release of toxic chemicals, human and animal waste, and other pollutants into the environment.
While taking immediate measures to protect people's health, state health officials conceded that the possible long-term effects of the disaster are unknown.
"This is a groundbreaking study and we're real pleased that we're able to support this situation," said Dr. Dennis McBride, the state health director. McBride said that drinking water contamination and antibiotic-resistant organisms are areas of particular concern.
Bill Pate, assistant branch head in the Division of Public Health, said that flooded human-waste treatment plants, hog farms, and poultry farms may have contaminated local drinking water supplies. Researchers identified 1,500 contaminated drinking water wells in the aftermath of the floods.
Pate said that these wells were decontaminated, and then re-sampled, but that not all were found to be safe for drinking. With the grants, researchers will test wells further, and for different kinds of microbes.
"Having this information will help us better advise the citizens of North Carolina what the risks are and help us develop strategies for the future," Pate said.
The major health concern with contaminated wells is gastroenteritis, or digestive system upsets, Pate said. But the Division of Public Health is also worried about antibiotic-resistant organisms getting into the environment and causing problems for people with weak immune systems.
Antibiotics are commonly used in animal agriculture as a growth stimulant. "With the growing numbers of antibiotic-resistant organisms we're very concerned about the crossover effect," McBride said.
The project, which is a collaborative effort with the University of North Carolina Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, begins immediately and will continue for a year. A final report is expected next July.
Until the state study comes up with definitive answers, Matthewson said he refuses to drink or cook with his town's tap water.
"I even hesitate to take a bath in it," he said.


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Selling to Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers
One of the more controversial ecommerce-related topics is the use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter to increase sales. There is ample evidence to suggest that, in spite of its popularity, social media produces a dismal return on investment. Respondents to a January 2011 Practical eCommerce survey, "Does Social Media Help Your Ecommerce Business?," revealed that social media accounted for less than five percent of their overall sales.
Social Media Better Utilized as Referral Source
Many practitioners argue that social networks are best utilized as referral sources — versus self-contained shopped carts, where visitors complete transactions without leaving the social platform. Practical eCommerce recently addressed this issue in a webinar titled "The Great Facebook Commerce Debate."
One presenter — Charles Nicholls, founder and chief strategy officer of SeeWhy, a conversion and abandoned-cart recovery firm — warned ecommerce merchants about relying on Facebook for a material amount of sales, either as a referral source or in a Facebook-enabled shopping cart. In Nicholls' estimation, social commerce is still too early and not right for most ecommerce merchants.
But as early as February 2009, Practical eCommerce senior contributing editor Armando Roggio discussed benefits to using social media apart from sales in his article titled "Ecommerce Know-How: Social Media as a Marketing Tool." In the article, Roggio stated that an "integrated social media marketing strategy can help you and your ecommerce site increase brand visibility, improve customer loyalty, and gain important insights about the markets you serve."
Facebook Positions Itself as Social Commerce Platform
Facebook is apparently positioning itself to be a social commerce-enabled platform. The company recently created a new website, Facebook Studio, that bills itself as "a community for marketers, creatives and fans." Its purpose is to train digital agencies on how to use the network for marketing. Topics included on the site are "Marketing with Facebook," "Facebook Pages," "Facebook Ads," and "Facebook Places & Deals."
Perhaps even more telling, Facebook recently instituted HTTPS protocols to provide greater security for its members and, perhaps, to prepare the platform to better manage sales transactions.
Facebook created opportunities for local businesses to offer special deals similar to those offered by location-based social networks such as Foursquare and Gowalla. What's more, in April the company created its own version of group coupon deals like Groupon and LivingSocial, a product Facebook calls "Deals."
Investment Capital Pouring In
Another signal is the amount of capital being invested into companies that specialize in social commerce.
Milyoni, a company that provides a Facebook-enabled shopping cart, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to the company.
ShopIgniter, which provides services similar to Milyoni, received $8 million in a second round of funding, the company announced.
Payvment, a company that also provides a Facebook shopping cart, last year raised $6 million in Series B funding, according to TechCrunch.
Webinar to Address How Best to Use Social Media for Ecommerce
Practical eCommerce is hosting a webinar, "How to Sell to Fans and Followers," on Tuesday, June 7, at 3 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time to address the topic of social commerce. "How to Sell to Fans and Followers" acknowledges the fact that many, if not most, companies now participate in social media to some degree. The webinar will target those companies that wish to learn how to use social media to increase sales, but do so in a way that doesn't alienate participants — such as Facebook Fans and Twitter followers — in the social networks.
The June 7 webinar is sponsored by Zmags, a provider of interactive, multi-platform digital publications. Taylor Duffy, senior product marketing manager at Zmags, and I will present the webinar, which covers the following topics:
Money-Making Opportunities. The opportunity for companies to monetize social relationships;
Selling Tools. How social media participation has evolved from a marketing tool to a selling tool;
Social Commerce Options. What options are available to participate in social commerce; and
Checklist for Success. How to launch your own social commerce campaign — a checklist for success.


I'm guessing the people that have drowned in the pool are analogous to… the people who have been denied some form of (tax funded) service and have died as result because the lifeguard (the libertarian) on duty was unwilling to help because… its not his problem? Maybe I'm interpreting this wrong… but I think this is the gist of it.
That's a pretty monstrous indictment of libertarianism.
Part of me (and likely a lot of libertarians) would argue that these people should likely not have been in the water if they couldn't swim… and that there is a certain lack of personal ownership on display here. We could likely agree that a real libertarian would never have taken up the mantle of lifeguard in the first place nor assumed the responsibility and authority that this position requires. (Nor would he foist that responsibility on anyone else) A libertarian swimming pool would likely make it abundantly clear, that swimming here is done at your own risk.
I think this is quite an 'academic' interpretation of libertarianism. And while I agree with it on some sort of theoretical level… I also worry that there is this idea that libertarians are happy to let others die or suffer because they feel inconvenienced by having to help people.
I worry that if you believe this that you have a very dim view of humanity in general. Are people are only rescued because there is a shared 'pool' of resources available to hire lifeguards? That seems a little dark to me. Besides couldn't we assign some kind of incremental blame to the other bathers that felt their tax paid for that lifeguard… and therefore they shouldn't have to intervene… because its not their 'job'. What culpability to the they share?
A building is on fire. Ten firemen rush in and save ten people. That fire department is funded by ten tax payers. Three of the tax payers fund 90% of the fire department. How do we assign an empirical level of 'goodness' to this endeavor. Is it assigned to firefighters? Or to the donors based on contribution. After all without one the other wouldn't exist… and likely vice versa.
Of course in a libertarian society we wouldn't have fire-stations (or libraries or roads)… because libertarians are crazy people. Or another even worse, capitalist fire-stations that would only save you… if you had the money to pay.
I don't think any of that is true. I think any libertarian would undoubtedly get behind community based endeavors (that benefit their community) where there is an egalitarian (and potentially voluntary) system of contribution that is completely transparent.
The counter argument is that poorer communities wouldn't have the funds available to be able to affect their community positively. Assuming of course people had the desire to improve their community. Having government assigning collective resources keeps our baser nature in check… without which we would all be killing pigs and dropping rocks on the fat kid… of course… this administrative class also gives them leeway for the maladministration of some of this money.
I'd like to say this interpretation is not true. But Libertarianism is a difficult thing to test. The stumbling block is always the 'people' element in a nice theory. I think libertarians are by nature, quite optimistic about humans wanting to build a Utopian society and generally being quite charitable. They've believe that without a tax burden the onus of responsibility falls squarely on the individual… and that we would 'rise' to the occasion.
OMG. Are you insane? That would never happen. It would all just be chaos and bloodshed. We need to be led… and told how to behave… and have laws that force us to be genteel and civil towards each other.
Yeah… you may be right. I also think that libertarianism is a process (of several generations) and that eventually humanism will win. I will be long dead before this happens, but I think the progress towards smaller government, a flat tax rate and more transparency in how taxpayer money is spent is likely a step in the right direction.
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In the meantime I got myself a small lathe and a mill to build more serious machines. Again on the website of Koichi Hirata, the Japanese Stirling professional, I found the plans for a simple Stirling machine which needs some machining, the LSE-01. It seemed simple enough for me to start learning how to operate my newly acquired lathe and mill.
The pistons and cylinders of this machine are made out of 3 ml glass syringes. The photos show these as a whole and cut.
The next list of pictures show some of the parts after they have been machined.
The glass cylinders are already glued with "Sikaflex-292" silicone glue into the cylinder cover. One must be very careful to keep the glass surfaces ultra-clean. Even a fingerprint on the piston makes enough friction that it is hard to move inside the cylinder.
I have changed the flywheel quite a bit compared to the plan, where it was only a flat disk.
It was a good feeling to put all these parts together.
Again a small change in the plans: for the connecting rods I used bush bearings out of brass (pic 22) instead of the 2 mm screws rotating directly inside the aluminum rods. I found that this had less friction and less radial clearance. These bushings are so tiny to hold that I made a simple vice for it (pic 23).
The slide gauge in pic 27 shows the clearance above the hot piston - 2 mm only between the piston top and the 'roof' of the heater!
The machine can only run with a sufficient temperature difference between the hot and cold cylinder. To maintain this I added a heat sink: for the prototype I used what I found in my cabinet: an aluminum sheet and two 2N3055 power transistors from the last century (pic 28), soon replaced by a fragment of an Intel 486 heatsink from my first computer (pic 29).
Runtime is approaching . . .
Exciting moments when the blow torch heated the machine for the first time .... will she run? ..... yes, it took a lot of heat, but SHE DID RUN!
Of course it was of interest how fast she was going. Pic 34 shows the bike speedometer that I borrowed from my Walking Beam machine. Initially it worked well - but the LSE-01 was too fast. After the machine exceeded 1600 rpm the instrument showed strange behaviour - probably the reed contact cannot change its status this fast. So what to do? Happily I remembered that I own a oscilloscope from my electronic days. I quickly grabbed a toothpick and 20 cm of varnished copper wire and twisted it around the toothpick's end. A magnet was taped to the flywheel, the coil positioned close to it - and I could read/calculate the speed: 1775 rpm. This not even close to the 3000 rpm that Koichi stated, but he is a master machinist, and this is an apprentice's work, my very first machined engine.
My bearings are not top-quality but cheap mass products. I do have a tiny bit of looseness on the flywheel assembly. Maybe I'll replace the 3 mm axle and bearing with a good quality 4mm set.
In any case, many thanks to Koichi Hirata for this great plans which worked from the stand for me.
As well, big thanks to Willi Bührer, a master machinist in a neighbouring town, who helped me with materials and straight tipps.
Finished during May 2007 by Ulrich Hornstein.


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Haa Dzong
The Haa Dzong (fortress) is situated at the eastward side of Haa in Damchoe region and is the first sight one can see when they travel to Haa. The Dzong was first built in 1895 with goal to serve the people of the Haa Valley and their needs and also as a place of safety and coordination against the Tibetan invasion as the valley share the Tibetan border. It is also said that this Dzong was built in order to subdue serpent deities who used to impact the lives of people who used to live in the valley.
In terms of architecture, this Dzong is a lot smaller in size as compared to the other bigger Dzongs in the country yet the design is still authentically Bhutanese. The Dzong is built as an administrative office for the Royal Government of Bhutan and also for the Indian Military Training Team. In 1963, the Dzong's responsibility was presented to the Indian Military for them to use it as a center for training and coordination.
In order to provide the facilities for these expat officials the Haa Dzong also took the responsibility to uphold venues like the Wangchuk lo Dzong Military School, a military hospital and school for children of the Indian expats. Due to these conditions that prevailed, the people of Haa don't consider this a Dzong and most of the festivals is celebrated in the Lhakhang Karpo.
There are restrictions to visit this Dzong but upon request, one may get a chance to check out this rare Dzong.
Related Haa Attractions
Chelela Pass
Lhakhang Karpo
Lhakhang Nagpo


You are here: Home 2012 December Do you or a loved one take SSRI drugs? Were you informed of the risks and benefits?
Dr. Weeks' Comment: Informed consent is the foundation stone of a civilized relationship among consenting adults. In medical practice, informed consent is the start of all treatment protocols without which no protocol should be offered. The doctor is obligated to share, to the best of his or her ability, the pros and cons, benefits and risks of the proposed treatment as well as other competing treatments in order that the patient can be informed and freely choose the treatment which he or she prefers. It is an art as well as a science to offer full information allowing a free consent because communication between patient and doctor is compromised on account of many stressors including time constraints, stress (felt by both patient and doctor – for different reasons) careless use of incomprehensible medical jargon, i.e. Latin terms for illnesses "lateral epicondylitis" = pain on side of elbow so why not say it!). But when you or your loved one was started on an SSRI drug (probably by a family practitioner ?), did the Doc tell you that SSRI drugs can interfere with your ability to drive? Read on!
Are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors safe for drivers? What is the evidence?
Clin Ther. 2012 May;34(5):1070-83. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2012.04.002. Epub 2012 May 2.
Ravera S, Ramaekers JG, de Jong-van den Berg LT, de Gier JJ.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are widely used medications to treat several psychiatric diseases and, above all, depression. They seem to be as effective as older antidepressants but have a different adverse effect profile. Despite their favorable safety profile, little is known about their influence on traffic safety.
To conduct a literature review to summarize the current evidence on the role of SSRIs in traffic safety, particularly concerning undesirable effects that could potentially impair fitness to drive, experimental and pharmacoepidemiologic studies on driving impairment, 2 existing categorization systems for driving-impairing medications, and the European legislative procedures for assessing fitness to drive before issuing a driver's license and driving under the influence of medicines.
The article search was performed in the following electronic databases: MEDLINE, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, and SafetyLit. The English-language scientific literature was searched using key words such as SSRIs and psychomotor performance, car crash or traffic accident, and adverse effects. For inclusion in this review, papers had to be full-text articles, refer to possible driving-related adverse effects, and be experimental or pharmacoepidemiologic studies on SSRIs and traffic accident risks. No restrictions concerning publication year were applied.
Ten articles were selected as background information on driving-related adverse effects, and 15 articles were selected regarding experimental and pharmacoepidemiologic work. Regarding SSRI adverse effects, the most reported undesirable effects referring to driving impairment were anxiety, agitation, sleep disturbances, headache, increased risk of suicidal behavior, and deliberate self-harm. Regarding the remaining issues addressed in this article, inconsistencies were found between the outcomes of the selected experimental and epidemiologic studies and between the 2 existing categorization systems under evaluation. Some pitfalls of the current legislative scenario were identified as well.
Based on the current evidence, it was concluded that more experimental and epidemiologic research is needed to elucidate the relationship between SSRI use and traffic safety. Furthermore, a revision of the existing categorization systems and harmonized European legislation in the field of medication use and driving were highly recommended.
Presentation: "The Effects of Antidepressants on Cognitive and Driving Performance," Holly J. Dannewitz, PhD, and Thomas Petros, PhD, University of North Dakota; Poster Session 4110, Aug. 17, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Aug. 18, 2008 "" People taking prescription antidepressants appear to drive worse than people who aren't taking such drugs, and depressed people on antidepressants have even more trouble concentrating and reacting behind the wheel.
These were the conclusions of a study recently released at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. University of North Dakota psychologists Holly Dannewitz. PhD, and Tom Petros, PhD, recruited 60 people to participate in a driving simulation in which participants had to make a series of common driving decisions, such as reacting to brake lights, stop signs or traffic signals while being distracted by speed limit signs, pylons, animals, other cars, helicopters or bicyclists.
The simulation tested steering, concentration and scanning. Thirty-one of the participants were taking at least one type of antidepressant while 29 control group members were taking no medications with the exception of oral contraceptives in some cases.
The group taking antidepressants was further divided into those who scored higher and lower on a test of depression. The group taking antidepressants who reported a high number of symptoms of depression performed significantly worse than the control group on several of the driving performance tasks. But participants who were taking antidepressants and scored in the normal range on a test to measure depression performed no differently than the non-medicated individuals.
This research is important in light of the rapid increase in the number of Americans taking antidepressants. Americans' use of antidepressant drugs such as Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft, nearly tripled in a decade, according to the 2004 Health United States report, issued by the National Center for Health Statistics. Among women, one in 10 takes an antidepressant drug, according to the government.
Since completing my residency in psychiatry at Dartmouth (Mary Hitchcock Medical Center), I have long been reluctant to prescribe SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) drugs to patients because of two reasons: 1) the side-effects typically exceed the benefits and 2) there are safer and effective and cheaper corrective options available. As a medical doctor, this is in accordance with the fundamental rule of the practice of medicine "First Do No Harm" ("Primum Non Nocere").
Also, my friend Ann Black Tracy PhD has compiled two highly informative websites which serve as a warning regarding the problems with this class of medication.
Full Summary of Articles on SSRI's that John Veneruso found so far, organized by topic.
Note: Increase risk in suicidal behavior seen to increase by 2 to 5 times normal level regardless of reason for prescribing an SSRI.
The following articles and text snippets cover the Apathy Syndrome that is a common side-effect of SSRI's.
Emotional blunting associated with SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction. Do SSRIs inhibit emotional responses?
Effects of paroxetine on emotional functioning and treatment awareness: a 4-week randomized placebo-controlled study in healthy clinicians.
Obesity, dyslipidemia, and diabetes with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: the Hordaland Health Study.
Lust, Romance, Attachment: Do the Side effects of Serotonin-Enhancing Antidepressants Jeopardize Romantic Love, Marriage, and Fertility?
SSRI antidepressants and birth defects.
Note: Some of these anecdotal accounts are supported by research and others are only seen on web forums. Many research studies need to be performed to investigate these effects.
Note: Literature suggests 14-20% become addicted. Addiction time appears to be partially dependent on dosage and time on that dose prior to discontinuation. Maximal addiction appears to occur after 8 weeks of usage.
"Intoxication Anosognosia: The Spellbinding Effect of Psychiatric Drugs", Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 8, 201-215, 2006.
The 1997 Eli Lilly Prozac Campaign: Depression Hurts but Can Prozac Help?
Happy Pills or Useful Skills?


I have been spending a lot of time 'Bo die Berg' of late - taking the N1 north and winding my way through the Breedekloof, Worcester and Robertson.
And still the roads are being worked on and still the traffic coming back through Stellenbosch is a nightmare at 5.30pm!
But the freedom one feels once one heads north and comes out of the dark Huguenot tunnel if very enlightening, literally! Lots of open space and surprising discoveries.
Bergsig is one of the farms which have been in one family - the Lategans - since 1843, and continue to produce great wines. They have a lovely Bistro which was bustling with lunch guests when I visited. The wine and food pairings looked yummy and I love their bold Tant Anna Chardonnay, Oom Prop Cabernet Sauvignon and Patmos wine labels.
The Tant Anna and Oom Prop were awarded 1st out of 20 wines by prestigious Wine of the Month Club, even before this Lategan Reserve Range was launched earlier this year. These wines will be available to the Wine of the Month Club's members.


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exports.execute = function(myMobileservice, recipe, callback){
    var recipename = 'fileupload';

    // default table names
    var myStorageaccount = '',
        myAccesskey = '',
        myAlbum = 'Album',
        myPicture = 'Picture';

    // file customizations
    var original = [],
        replacement = [],
        files;

    // logging
    var log = recipe.cli.output,
        progress;

    async.series([
        function(callback){
            // prompt for storage account
            recipe.ask('Mobile storage account: ', recipe.REGEXP, 'Storage account format not recognized', function(name) {
                myStorageaccount = name;
                callback();
            });
        },
        function(callback){
            // validate & get stoage key from storage name
            progress = recipe.cli.progress('Fetching primary access key associated with storage account \'' + myStorageaccount + '\'');
            scripty.invoke('account storage keys list ' + myStorageaccount, function(err, results){
                if (err) return callback(err);
                progress.end();
                myAccesskey = results['Primary'];
                callback();
            });
        },
        function(callback){
            // create album table
            recipe.createTable(myMobileservice, "Album", function (err, results) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                myAlbum = results;
                callback();
            });
        },
        function(callback){
            // create picture table
            recipe.createTable(myMobileservice, "Picture", function (err, results) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                myPicture = results;
                callback();
            });
        },
        function (callback) {
            // retreive picture table script
            log.info('');
            progress = recipe.cli.progress('Copying scripts\n');
            original = ['\\$storageaccount', '\\$accesskey'];
            replacement = [myStorageaccount, myAccesskey];
            var tableFile = [{
                dir: 'server_files/table',
                file: 'Picture.insert.js',
                newFile: myPicture + '.insert.js',
                original: original,
                replacement: replacement
            }];
            recipe.copyFiles(recipename, tableFile, function (err) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                progress.end();
                callback();
            });
        },
        function (callback) {
            // upload picture table script
            var tableInsertscript = 'table/' + myPicture + '.insert.js';
            var myInsertscript = 'server_files/' + tableInsertscript;

            progress = recipe.cli.progress('Uploading picture script \'' + myInsertscript + '\'');
            recipe.scripty.invoke('mobile script upload ' + myMobileservice + ' ' + tableInsertscript + ' -f ' + myInsertscript, function (err, results) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                else {
                    progress.end();
                    callback();
                }
            });
        },
        function (callback) {
            // find all client files
            recipe.readPath(recipe.path.join(__dirname, './client_files'), __dirname, function (err, results) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                files = results;
                callback();
            });
        },
        function (callback) {
            original = ['\\$picture', '\\$album', '\\$namespace'];
            replacement = [myPicture, myAlbum, ''];
            // format client files
            recipe.async.forEachSeries(
                files,
                function (file, done) {
                    file.original = original;
                    file.replacement = replacement;
                    done();
                },
                function (err) {
                    if (err) return callback(err);
                    callback();
                });
        },
        function (callback) {
            // copy client files to user environment
            recipe.copyFiles(recipename, files, function (err) {
                if (err) return callback(err);
                callback();
            });
        }
    ],
    function (err, results) {
        if (err) throw err;
        callback();
    });
}

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Mark Steighner has been living and teaching in the Gorge since 1979, directing choral and vocal ensembles at Hood River Valley High School (HRVHS), and conducting the Columbia Gorge Sinfonietta, Voci Choral Ensemble, Columbia Gorge Youth Choir, and many other ensembles. He has directed over 40 musical theatre productions at HRVHS and at the CAST theatre in Hood River.
As a composer, Mr. Steighner has written a number of full-length musicals and operas (including the recent Avalon, A Steampunk Musical Romance), as well as works for band, orchestra, and choir. Steighner studied composition with Peter Racine Fricker and Thea Musgrave at University of California at Santa Barbara and Bryan Johanson at Portland State University.
In addition to his musical pursuits, Steighner contributes reviews and interviews to a number of videogame and technology websites such as Videogamewriters.com and Gamershell.com. His reviews have been aggregated on Metacritic. Steighner has also contributed articles to a number of regional and music-oriented journals and publications.


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Gustav Fredrik Lange, född 22 februari 1861 i Halden, död 11 februari 1939 i Oslo, var en norsk violinist och kompositör.

Lagne utbildades i Stockholm av K. J. Lindberg, i Paris av Hubert Léonard och i Berlin av Émile Sauret. I Oslo verkade han som lärare vid konservatoriet, som violinist i teaterkapell och Filharmoniska sällskapets orkester samt som ledare för en stråkkvartett. Lange har även utgett kompositioner för violin.

Källor

Norska violinister
Norska klassiska kompositörer
Födda 1861
Avlidna 1939
Män
Svensk uppslagsbok
Personer från Haldens kommun

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Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera – Masterpieces from The Geldman Collection
9 July–8 October 2011
by REBECCA WRIGHT
To collect is to create a personal narrative. The driving force behind this narrative could be to map the passing of time, to compensate for something lost, or perhaps to create a new life. Nurtured by Russian émigré Jacques Gelman, (an early movie mogul) and his wife Natasha Gelman, The Gelman Collection of Mexican Art numbers over 300 works making it one of the most important holdings of 20th-century Mexican art in the world.
Nickolas Muray. Frida on White Bench, 1938. Carbro print. Photo by Nickolas Muray. © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives.
In the introductory notes to the exhibition Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: From the Gelman Collection, we learn of these eminent collectors that "like their friends Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera [the Gelmans] had been unable to bear children – so their collection was their surrogate family".1 The inclusion in this show of two portraits of Natasha Gelman, one painted by Kahlo and the other by Rivera, reminds us that despite the critical importance of the Gelman collection, the "surrogate family" on exhibition will always speak more of the parents than of the parts which make up its whole. In this exhibition it is through the Gelmans that we learn about two giants of the 20th century.
The ongoing debate about the critical importance of Rivera versus Kahlo has been heated, fought on many fronts, over a long period of time. It is an argument as passionate as one can only imagine the fiery couple had themselves during their tempestuous marriage. During his lifetime Rivera rose to prominence through his large-scale mural commissions, which reflected Mexican society and his Trotskyist values. He received international acclaim as well as attracting controversy. A large exhibition of monographs in 1932 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York anointed him firmly into the canon of 20th-century art. Kahlo, on the other hand, had a less high profile career during her lifetime, being known mainly as Rivera's wife. She had her first solo exhibition in 1938 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Recently however, Kahlo has somewhat stolen the limelight, having had a large retrospective at the Tate Modern in 2005. In 2001 she had been the first Hispanic woman to be featured on a US postage stamp. This exhibition seeks to intercede as referee in order to level the playing field and stop the incessant bickering over which of the pair has greater historical relevance. It seeks once again to see the pair in unison as a prolific art-making couple.
Diego Rivera. Landscape with Cacti, 1931. Oil on canvas. © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./DACS.
With this in mind, the exhibition resists the tendency shown in the mounting literature on the couple to isolate the pair and place Kahlo in relation to feminist or multicultural criticism, and to align Rivera with political Marxism. The exhibition therefore stands in opposition to the recent interpretation of Kahlo put forth by the feminist artist and critic Judy Chicago and art historian Frances Borzello in their book Frida Kahlo: Face to Face (2010).2 Here they argue that we should not, and cannot, read Kahlo through her life with Rivera, but instead we must see her at the heart of her own narrative, placing her and her feminism at the centre of her work. Rejecting the many critical voices surrounding this pair therefore, the exhibition seeks to go the very source of Frida and Diego's relationship by listening only to how Rivera and Kahlo valued one another's work.
In the exhibition and in the catalogue this approach is strongly carried through. Statements written by each figure about one another's work are scattered throughout the show offering us a clear prism through which to view the works. This is complemented by two essays in the catalogue Portrait of Diego by Frida Kahlo3 and Frida Kahlo and Mexican Art by Diego Rivera,4 which offer us original source material to open up the sediment of critical analysis that has attached itself to the work over time. One catalogue essay by curator Helga Prignitz-Poda offers an exhaustive account of how the pair depicted one another in their mutual portraits.5 Using a heavy-handed form of visual analysis in which each iconographic detail is carefully dissected, the author extracts as much biographical information as possible in order to understand how the pair valued one another artistically.
This approach of reading one artist through the other ironically leads to the most rewarding aspect of the exhibition: the insertion of Rivera and Kahlo into a context that extends beyond their own relationship. An adjacent exhibition shows architectural photographs by Guillermo Kahlo, Frida's father. By enabling us to view these photographs, we are given a chronology for Kahlo that stretches beyond her years with Rivera, and we begin to understand what influenced her as a child. This leads us to grasp Kahlo's early interest in photography, and her love of posing in front of the camera; this is reiterated by the photographs included in the exhibition, by Bernard Silberstein, Héctor Garçia, and Martin Munkási. We also learn about figures other than Rivera who greatly influenced Kahlo during her career. Kahlo's affair with Nickolas Muray, a Hungarian-American photographer, is illustrated by his iconic photographic portraits, Frida on a White Bench (1938), Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo (1939) and Frida Kahlo in New York (1946). These are given a pivotal position in the exhibition through their placement in the central room. In this location they somewhat outshine the few canvases included by Rivera. One essay in the catalogue, by Saloman Grimberg, documents the ten-year love affair between Muray and Kahlo, demonstrating how close Kahlo came to staying with him and leaving Rivera altogether.6
An adjacent room to the exhibition is centred on photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Lola Álvarez Bravo. Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo married in 1925, separating in 1935. Lola had learnt photography through Manuel, working first as his assistant before becoming a photographer in her own right. Manuel had met Rivera through Tina Modotti, and subsequently Kahlo and Lola became close friends. The pairing of this couple echoes that of Rivera and Kahlo in the principle exhibition, inferring similar power struggles between male and female, teacher and student, and between the empirical and the psychological in terms of style. The juxtaposition of this partnership through images such as Una Escalera Grande (Large Ladder) (1932), by Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Erongarícuaro (Michoacán, Mex) (1945), by Lola Álvarez Bravo achieves a dialogue between the two figures, revealing both a shared origin but also two radically unique styles. The preoccupation is less a battle over importance, dominance and influence, rather it enables the individuals to speak as a powerful couple that defined a photographic generation.
It is perhaps in this adjacent room where we see the kind of dialogue that is absent from the main exhibition. Rivera, who is awarded a small room at the front of the exhibition, has a difficult time competing with Kahlo, whose work runs over two rooms and is far more concentrated in terms of material. This is however a common problem due to most of Rivera's most prominent works being large murals that are impossible to transport and display. Despite this constraint, the comparison set up between Kahlo and Rivera appears somewhat arbitrary. The exhibition begins with Rivera's canvas Last Hour (1915), a work directly influenced by his time spent in Paris in contact with the Cubist circle. This places each figure in relation to a European art movement, Kahlo in turn being closely aligned with Surrealism. By positioning Rivera in a trajectory concerned with the objective world and Kahlo in relation to the internal, psychological world, any conversation between the couple somewhat disappears. For example, a direct comparison between Rivera's Landscape with Cactus (1931) and Kahlo's The Bride who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Opened (1943), perhaps might have opened up various discussions about personification, biography, and the objective world in relation to both artists, but by separating the work between two sections of the exhibition none of this becomes readily apparent.
While attempting to demystify the relationship between Rivera and Kahlo, the stereotypes that surround these two figures appear in this exhibition rather too reinforced. Rivera and Kahlo once again battle for attention and instead of reading the two figures through each other, both appear isolated. In actively rejecting Judy Chicago's reading of Kahlo, this exhibition somewhat falls ironically into illustrating her very argument. We read Kahlo less in relation to Rivera, but instead in the wider context that surrounded her artistic career. Telling the story of Kahlo and Rivera through the Gelman collection will always carry with it the problem that whilst looking for the voices of Rivera and Kahlo we hear through the Gelmans the story of a period and a place. Though Rivera and Kahlo appear centre stage, the beauty of this exhibition lies in the inclusion of other characters, who also participated in the narrative captured within the Gelman collection. It is, after all, the Gelmans' "surrogate family", not that of Rivera and Kahlo themselves.
1. www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/current/main-galleries/frida-kahlo-diego-rivera/frida-kahlo-diego-rivera/the-gelman-collection1
2. Judy Chicago, Frances Borzello, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face, Prestel; USA, 2010
3. Frida Kahlo, 'Portrait of Diego' in Frida & Diego: From the Gelman Collection, Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum, 2010: 62–74
4. Diego Rivera, 'Frida Kahlo and Mexican Art', in Frida & Diego: From the Gelman Collection, Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum, 2010: 62–74
5. Helga Prignitz-Poda, 'Heavenly and Earthly Love Stories: The Mutual Portraits of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo', in Frida & Diego: From the Gelman Collection, Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum, 2010: 18–44
6. Salomon Grimberg, 'The Portraits of Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray', in Frida & Diego: From the Gelman Collection, Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum, 2010: 80–87
Helen Flockhart: 'Art doesn't have to be large to be powerful'
The Scottish painter on her time at Glasgow School of Art in the 80s, being influenced by conventional artists as well as models from knitting patterns, and how she produces her detailed, labour intensive works
Pallant House's current exhibition celebrates the way in which music sustained and inspired abstract art in the early 20th century. From Bach to Debussy, Sh
Breaking the Myths
Amedeo Modigliani's (1884-1920) premature death at the age of 35, as a consequence of bohemian excess, overshadowed a proper analysis of his work for many years.
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction
For decades, art history taught us that Kandinsky was the greatest pioneer of abstract art, the artist who removed the subject matter from painting. The great ideological debate between abstraction and figuration has given way to a more considered view of the dialogue between the two, yet many misguided views and myths remain.


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Q: Upload Image From seed file using paperclip gem I am using Ruby on rails and alongside it paper-clip for image storing and linking. It works fantastic. I want to add an image into database threw seed. Rb so what is the proper syntax for that?
seed.rb
#add 2 Collection
Collection.create(title: 'Beauty, Health', Description: '
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
')
Collection.create(title: 'Mobiles, Computers', Description: '
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
')

#ADD 3 PRODUCT IN EACH COLLECTION

Product.create(name:'Make-up', title: 'Make-up', description: '
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
',
               price: '29', stars: '4', review: '
Love this.. always use Lakme compact for the quality purpose.. works well for me everytime..
',
               collection_id: '3', product_image: File.new("images/seed3.jpg"))

(/home/aspireedge/Aspiree/TestShop/app/assets/images) <== image_location

Error:
***@***-H81M-S:~/***/***$ rake db:seed
rake aborted!
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - images/seed3.jpg
/home/***/***/***/db/seeds.rb:18:in `initialize'
/home/***/***/***/db/seeds.rb:18:in `new'
/home/***/***/***/db/seeds.rb:18:in `<top (required)>'
/home/***/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/activesupport-4.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:268:in `load'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/activesupport-4.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:268:in `block in load'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/activesupport-4.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:240:in `load_dependency'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/activesupport-4.2.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:268:in `load'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/railties-4.2.9/lib/rails/engine.rb:547:in `load_seed'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/activerecord-4.2.9/lib/active_record/tasks/database_tasks.rb:253:in `load_seed'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/activerecord-4.2.9/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:173:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/gems/rake-12.0.0/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
/home/aspireedge/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@subscription/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `'
Tasks: TOP => db:seed
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Product.rb(model)
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :collection

  has_attached_file :product_image, styles: { product:"253x144", medium: "300x300>", thumb: "100x100>" }, default_url: "/images/:style/missing.png"
  validates_attachment :product_image, content_type: { content_type: ["image/jpg", "image/jpeg",     "image/png"] }
end

A: This should work :
 product = Product.new(name:'Make-up', title: 'Make-up', description: '
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
',
               price: '29', stars: '4', review: '
Love this.. always use Lakme compact for the quality purpose.. works well for me everytime..
',
               collection_id: '3')
 product.product_image = File.open("images/seed3.jpg")
 product.save

A: i solve the error

*

*you create a image folder in your Dir.

*you assign root_path for image in to seed file

product_image: File.new("#{Rails.root}/images/seed3.jpg"))

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Q: Jasper Report Theme does any one knows about where to find Jasper Reports ready made themes as we can find for other tools. i mean to say if i can find best font combinations with color combinations for various section of Jasper reports. so i can use it as a Jasper style Template such as we use CSS for web pages. if anyone uses it for his/her projects please guide me. i want to make pixel perfect professional reports using Jasper but i am always confusing for styling it.
Thank You
Mihir Parekh

A: I have not seen any place where you can download themes for Jasper Reports. They do support what they call Jasper Reports Templates, so I assume it would be possible.
My suggestion is for you to sit down and determine what you think is best, and then create your own template. They can be externalized, so that if you need to change it, you just do it in one place.
See this Question on External Styles in JasperReports and here Jasper Reports Sample they provide on it.

A: You can find different default template in iReport current version is 4.x
Some use full links :

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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJMb7W2uKs

*http://jasperforge.org/website/ireportwebsite/IR%20Website/ir_design_a_report.html?header=project&target=ireport
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Huge props to US R&B/Pop-flavored blog, Toya's World, for featuring for me for a third time now. They also feature a throwback track of mine that alot of you may not have heard before. I appreciate the support, Toya!


VALCRI has completed its second Mid-Term Review (MTR-2). The review was held in Brussels on 24 March 2017. The Consortium presented the integrated prototype.
The New Scientist's article: AI detective analyses police data to learn how to crack cases.